Xuan Daotong took Xuan Mo to catch the demon, and returned to the guesthouse compound at night. Xuan Daotong's cough became heavier again, and Xuan Mo also looked very tired.
Chunsheng was lying on the bed. The sound of Xuandaotong sneezing and coughing in the woodshed next door kept her awake.
"Master, you have a fever!" Xuan Mo's voice came from the woodshed next door.
"Hmph! I have a fever, and during the day, I looked like I was just blinded by the money. I didn't get the money, and I can't even afford the medicine. I'm cheating others and harming myself!" Chun Sheng cursed in his heart.
Xuandaotong worked hard all day, feeling cold and hungry. The wind and cold worsened and he developed a high fever.
Xuan Mo ran back and forth, pouring tea and water to wipe himself, waiting on him, and was busy until midnight.
Xuan Daotong was so confused that he shouted: "Soup... soup... I want to drink soup..."
"Master, the soup is here." Xuan Mo's voice.
Soup? Where did Xuanmo get the soup? Could it be that he used hot water to trick his master? Chun Sheng had doubts in his heart.
After drinking the soup, the old Taoist murmured a few words before snoring and falling asleep. Xuan Mo continued to work for a while.
When Chun Sheng heard that there was no movement in the woodshed, he was so sleepy that his eyelids clenched and he fell asleep.
At dawn the next day, Chun Sheng was about to resign and leave with the businessman. As soon as he left the room, he saw Xuan Mo fetching water to wash his face in the courtyard.
Xuan Mo's complexion was a little bad. He was washing his face with one hand and kept the other hand still. When he wiped his face, his injury was vaguely revealed!
Thinking of the soup last night, Chun Sheng felt that Xuan Mo's behavior was not right, so he stepped forward and lifted the sleeve of Xuan Mo's hand...
A thin bandage with blood soaked out of it!
Xuan Mo was startled by Chun Sheng and hurriedly withdrew his arms and retracted them into his sleeves.
"What's wrong with your hand?" Chun Sheng asked Xuan Mo.
Xuan Mo smiled easily and said, "Yesterday I went to catch monsters with my master and was accidentally scratched by a sword."
After being deceived a lot, Chun Xue became smarter. Xuan Mo was simply lying to her.
"Catch monsters? If you catch them again, are you going to stew yourself and give it to your master?"
"No, just a little blood..." Xuan Mo admitted, seeing that he couldn't hide it from Chun Sheng.
"Are you crazy!" Chunsheng shouted.
Xuan Mo hurriedly covered Chun Sheng's mouth, "Shh! My master is still asleep, don't let him hear."
"Foolish filial piety!"
In Chunsheng's opinion, Xuan Daotong, that unreliable old liar, was not worthy of Xuan Mo's treatment.
"I have no father or mother and I depend on my master for life. The master is my biological father. The master is wrong, but I can't just watch him be sick and hungry." Xuan Mo explained.
No father, no mother...depending on each other...this sentence pierced Chunsheng's heart.
Chunsheng thought of Danxia. Although Danxia misunderstood her and scolded her, she still wanted to reconcile with Danxia because they were born together, without a father or a mother, and depended on each other. Thinking of this, Chun Sheng understood Xuan Mo a little.
Chun Sheng pulled Xuan Mo into the kitchen. Anyway, she was already angry after being greedy for Xuan Daotong. For Xuan Mo, she decided to turn their feud into friendship with Xuan Dao Tong.
"This is my reward for helping me find a living."
A bowl of fragrant red dates and black-bone chicken soup was placed in front of Xuan Mo.
Before leaving the merchant compound, Chun Sheng wanted to help a group of Xuan Mo as much as possible and secretly used magic power to do it.
Xuan Mo looked troubled.
"Can't drink? Can your demon hunting sect only eat vegetarian food?" Chun Sheng asked.
"Master said that the method of our demon-catching sect is Xiaoyao Dao, so we don't need to be vegetarian."
"Then why don't you drink?"
Xuan Mo hesitated, "My master, does he have..."
"Don't worry about your master, he'll be there if he's hungry. You have to finish this bowl."
Xuan Daotong's Chunsheng is also ready.
"Okay." Xuan Mo obediently took the rice bowl and couldn't stop after taking one bite. Firstly, he was too hungry, and secondly, Chunsheng's cooking was so delicious.
"Xiaoxia, thank you. This is the best chicken soup I have ever tasted!"
Chun Sheng filled a large bowl with the remaining chicken necks, chicken feet, chicken racks, and chicken butts in a messy manner.
"These are for your master."
If it weren't for Xuan Mo's sake, she wouldn't even give Xuan Daotong a piece of cake.
"Xiao Xia, my master treated you like this and you gave him food. You are so kind. I thank you on behalf of my master."
Xuan Mo bowed to Chun Sheng while holding the rice bowl and gave it to Xuan Daotong. He came back excitedly after a while and said that his master drank chicken soup and broke out into a sweat, and the cold was much better.
Chunsheng couldn't help feeling sad. It was funny that the master and apprentice who knew medical skills almost died of illness because they couldn't afford medicine and food. She had to teach Xuan Modian how to survive before leaving.
Chun Sheng pulled Xuan Mo out of the compound and went straight to the market.
"What are we going to do?"
Xuan Mo followed Chun Sheng as he trotted along, not knowing why.
"Let's buy you a Taoist robe that fits you first." Chun Sheng pulled Xuan Mo and ran to the market like a gust of wind.
"No, I can't ask for your things anymore." Xuan Mo refused.
"This is your reward for introducing me to my business."
Chunsheng's reasons left Xuanmo speechless.
Xuan Mo put on new clothes and finally regained his appearance as a handsome young man.
"Xuan Mo, why are your cheeks always so red? What did you put on them? It's like a little girl applying rouge."
Chun Sheng wiped Xuan Mo's little face, but it couldn't be wiped off. A pair of curious eyes stared at Xuan Mo's face, with a girlish confusion in his eyes.
"I didn't put anything on...the weather was too cold..."
Xuan Mo held his face in embarrassment. Sleeping in the open with his master, his face was so cold that he suffered frostbite.
The two of them walked all the way out of Langhuan City and came to a small mountain forest on the outskirts. Chun Sheng took out two slingshots and a handful of stones from his arms and gave Xuan Mo a set.
"Are you using this to catch monsters?" Xuan Mo looked at the slingshot and stones in his hand again and again, dumbfounded.
"ah?"
Chun Sheng burst into laughter, and Xuan Mo followed his master to catch monsters and was even fooled.
"I'm almost starving to death and all I can think about is catching monsters! If you learn how to use it, you can hunt down chickadees and other birds. Then you won't starve to death by following your stupid liar master!"
"Xiao Xia, you are so kind! You are the most compassionate person I have ever seen! You must have been sent by the Patriarch of the Sanqing Dynasty!" Xuan Mo praised him profusely.
Chunsheng curled his lips, "You and your master are also the worst charlatans I have ever seen." She remembered that the patriarch said that mortals become liars because they are greedy for profit. If you are a liar, you can't make a living and there is no one else.
Xuan Mo said embarrassedly: "Actually, my master is not a liar. He really knows how to catch monsters. His ability to draw talismans is really passed down from his ancestors."
Chun Sheng covered his mouth and laughed, "It's passed down from our ancestors again. Your master's ability to endure hunger is also passed down from our ancestors."
She didn't believe what Xuan Mo said at all. She kept chatting with Xuan Mo while looking for traces of birds and animals.
Xuan Mo knew that his master was unreliable and felt that he could not explain it clearly anyway, so he should just follow Xiao Xia and learn to hunt birds.
After fiddling with the slingshot and just taking a step, Chun Sheng suddenly reminded him in a low voice, "Shh! Don't talk."
The small mountain forest is snowy, cold and quiet, and there seems to be no birds or animals...
Chun Sheng gestured to Xuan Mo not to move.
Xuan Mo raised one foot and did not dare to drop it back, hanging tremblingly in the air.
As expected, there was a Pheasant preening its feathers on a branch not far away.
Chun Sheng is like a little hunting beast, aiming at the pheasant with his eyes like lightning, and pulling the pebbles to fill the bow...
"Pah!" The pheasant plopped and fell.
"Hehe! Xuanmo has fresh pheasant soup to eat!"
Chun Sheng happily waved the slingshot towards Xuan Mo and ran over to pick up the pheasants.
Xuan Mo raised one leg and looked at Chunsheng's smart and cute appearance, thinking that the small slingshot was indeed more useful than the master's demon-catching sword... But... why did Xiaoxia look a bit like a girl, and it was really not consistent with his appearance... …
Chun Sheng explained to Xuan Mo the essentials of using a slingshot. Xuan Mo tried it several times in a serious manner, and Chun Sheng expressed satisfaction.
The two of them each held slingshots and continued to look for prey. Chun Sheng was walking in front, and Xuan Mo behind him said softly, "Don't move!"
Chunsheng steadied his steps and listened. There was indeed a small bird chirping diagonally behind her, and Xuan Mo noticed it.
"Bang!" A projectile flew out, accompanied by a scream.
The little bird flew away in fright, and the birds and beasts hidden in the forest fled away.
"Xuan Mo! Why did you hit me on the head!"
Chun Sheng covered the back of his head with both hands. This "attack" was too sudden.
Xuan Mo held up the slingshot innocently, with a face full of shame, "Xiao Xia...I'm sorry, I clearly had my sights right, but I didn't know why I missed it."
Chun Sheng covered his head and felt helpless.
"It hurts a lot... I need to find something to apply it on..."
Xuan Mo looked around for anything available.
"It's okay, no need."
Chun Sheng covered his head and continued to walk forward. After walking a few steps, he felt that the beating was too painful and he was still a little dizzy, so he found a big stone and sat down to rub his head. He thought that Xuan Mo was so thin and weak.
"Don't rub it, it will make the swelling worse."
A cold cloth bag was gently applied to Chun Sheng's head. It was the snow bag Xuan Mo found.
Chun Sheng took Xuan Mo's snow pack and applied it for a while, and the pain gradually subsided.
"You really shouldn't be allowed to eat. Beat me when you're full." Chunsheng pursed his lips and muttered dissatisfiedly.
"I'm sorry, I'm too stupid." Xuan Mo apologized sheepishly.
"I'm so unlucky to meet you..."
Chun Sheng applied it to his head and suddenly remembered that something was wrong.
She and Xuan Mo didn't bring any cloth bags with them. What did Xuan Mo use to wrap the snow?
"Where did the cloth wrap the ice and snow come from? Did you tear the clothes?" Chun was afraid that Xuan Mo would be stupid and tear the new clothes again, so he took off the cloth bag and looked at it.
Xuan Mo quickly helped Xue Bao back, "No, no, how could I part with the new clothes you gave me."
"Then what did you use?" Chunsheng asked.
"Oh, don't ask, just apply it quickly, as long as it works." Xuan Mo laughed.
"Did you tear off your new clothes?" Chunsheng asked seriously again.
Xuan Mo hesitated for a moment and whispered: "No, it's actually just socks... socks... just..."
"sock!"
Chunsheng pulled the cloth bag off, and it turned out to be a sock.
Xuan Mo quickly explained, "New! New! When I just bought clothes, the store gave me a pair of socks as a gift. My old socks can still be worn, so I didn't change them."
"What if someone tries it?" Chun Sheng said anxiously.
"No...new..." Xuan Mo hesitated a little, not very firm.
"Wait...have you tried it?" Chun Sheng saw the clues.
Xuan Mo's face was expressionless, pretending to be calm, "No."
"Why are your ears red? Are you lying?" Chun Sheng put his face in front of Xuan Mo and stared into Xuan Mo's eyes. Xuan Mo looked away, his face turned red, and he said harshly: "No..."
"Look at me and say no." Chun Sheng turned Xuan Mo's face away.
Xuan Mo realized that he couldn't hide it anymore, so he jumped up and ran, "I just gave it a try. I washed my feet last night."
Chun Sheng jumped up and said, "Xuan Mo! Stop! You lied to me again! You actually put stinky socks on my head!"
A handful of stones hit Xuan Mo's butt.
"Oops!" Xuan Mo ran around covering his butt, explaining as he ran, "I just gave it a try, it doesn't stink..."
